Maimonides's Skeptical Critique of a Divine Intellect, or the Curious Case of Guide I.68.

The philosophers' dictum in Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed I.68 has been classically read as Maimonides's own opinion that God's intellect in act is identical to the intellecting subject in act and intellectum in act, no different from a human intellect in act. This reading of the chapter gener...

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Published in:	Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 183 - 213
Main Author:	Stern, Josef
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Apr2026
Subjects:	Intellect Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 Philosophical literature Philosophy of mind Ancient philosophy Theory of knowledge Skepticism Philosophy of religion Philosophers
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